The remarkable series of People's History posters, made by the Just Seeds Collective, has just created one that honors the activism and imagination of Grace Lee and Jimmy Boggs, Detroiters and profound leaders of the movement for creative nonviolence.
Bec Young is the artist. She describes what drew her to the writings and work of the Boggs' on the Just Seeds blog.
... Jimmy died in 1993, but Grace still lives at The Boggs Center,
the community center they established in part of their house on the
East side of Detroit. At almost 94 years old, Grace is still quite
active and writes a column weekly for the Michigan Citizen,
"America's Most Progressive Community Newspaper." What impresses me
most about Grace is how flexible she is in her thinking. She is very
open to new ideas and ways of doing things, and is very creative in her
perspective about everything she theorizes about. That includes just
about everything, but recently she often focuses on schools and the
economy. I am grateful to have been able to show the poster to Grace
for feedback before printing, and to hand the finished copies to her
afterward. In what was one of the most rewarding moments so far of my
art-making life, she looked at it and said simply "I love it!"
Via Boggs Blog.
Bec has gotten me to think about communication between myself and others in ways I never imagined before I moved here, and I'm happy to see her getting positive press anywhere.
There are a few more of the people's history posters up in the hallway next to our shop, if anyone is curious to see some of the other offerings from justseeds.
Posted by: Joey | March 04, 2009 at 01:39 AM
The shop Joey means is The Hub, the fantastic bike shop on Cass Avenue in Detroit. And the poster collection they have are fabulous, beautiful!
Tell Bec she has my compliments!
Posted by: Anna Clark | March 04, 2009 at 12:36 PM